LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
West Country Doctor Honoured
DR. D. I. AITKEN, of Swanage, has been awarded a special certificate on vellum in recognition of the part he played when the Swanage life-boat landed a sick man from the motor vessel Maya of Beirut on ist December, 1966.
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Category: Awards
Cold sweat
Panic can paralyse. For nutritional therapist Julie Brooks (45), it struck during an activity she had completed many times before – walking from her holiday digs in Lydstep, Pembrokeshire, to Tenby. But this time, the tide came in quicker...
Category: Articles
Alabama, of Goole
HUNSTANTON.—Early on the 14th April the schooner Alabama, of Goole, while on a voyage from Cliff Creek to Hull was wrecked on the Woolpack Sands, during a gale at E.N.E., accompanied by a heavy fall of snow. The Life-boat Licensed Victualler...
Formosa
FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHEN BAY. — At3 P.M. on the 29th April, just before high water, the yacht Formosa, of Carmarthen, started with four men on board to try to save some drowning cattle, which had strayed on to the Cefn Sidan Sand and had been...
William Clowes
On the 6th March a fearful gale from the H.E. was experienced.
At 2 P.M. signals of distress were shown by the fishing-yawl William Clowes, of Mley, which was at anchor in the bay. As the tide was then close up to the...
Watson
SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 8th April, during a N. wind, squally weather and a very rough sea, signals of distress were shown by the sloop Watson, of Goole,was at about 5.15 P.M. The Life-boat Ann, John and Mary was at once got ready for...
A Flat
HILBRE ISLAND, CHESHIRE.—On the 7th February it was reported that a flat was in distress and would require assistance.
She first caught the Salisbury Bank, where she lost her punt, but got off, slipped her anchor and made...
Fox
MAEGATE, KENT, and HARWICH, ESSEX. — At 11.30 A.M. on the 19th August information was received at Margate that a large vessel was ashore on the Longsand. The crew of the No. '2 Life-boat Civil Service No. 1 were assembled, the Life-boat...
L'Espoir de L'Avenir
During a heavy S.W. gale on the 25th June the Coast- guard reported by telephone that a vessel was burning flares for assistance off East Lane Point. The No. 1 Life- boat Ann Fawcett proceeded to Shingle Street and found the schooner...
Isabella
WINTERTON (NORFOLK).—During thick and bitterly cold weather on the morning of the 23rd January, the wind blowing a strong gale from E.N.E., with a very heavy sea and snow squalls, flares were shown by a vessel which ran aground about a mile...